LCR,
She found little information on this subject, which I confess I was a beginner and interested layman.
Thus, the case of Sandro Kia was not the first in the history of Saatchi:
Charles Saatchi, the gallery Mogul of Britain had been accused of monopolizing the contemporary British Art by blind buying and selective dumping. In the nineties Saatchi bought the works of the Italian Neo-expressionist Sandro Chia's works for a whopping price and later on dumped them in the market for lesser price. Saatchi, in one his interviews, explained his position saying that he never bought the works from Sandro Chia. Instead, he bought it from an American collector and when he lost interest in them he decided to dump.
Perhaps, from the league of Clemente, Cucchi, Chia and Mimo Paladino, Chia is the only artist who is now known for his loss in the market place. Saatchi himself has stated that Chia is the artist who would be remembered for being dumped by him. Of late, another artist Peter Blake too has come out against Saatchi for dumping his works in the market. He accused Saatchi of buying some artists completely and dumping them selectively later on only to ruin their careers.
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http://www.artconcerns.net/2006/html...lesSaatchi.htm)
Here's what he said about Saatchi Sandro Kia:
CS: In fact, I only ever owned seven paintings by Chia. One morning I offered three of them back to Angela Westwater, his New York dealer where I had originally bought them, and four back to Bruno Bischofberger his European dealer where, again, I had bought those.
Chia's work was tremendously desirable at the time and all seven went to big-shot collectors or museums by close of day. If Sandro Chia hadn't had a psychological need to be rejected in public, this issue would never have been considered of much interest. If an artist is producing good work, someone selling a group of strong ones does an artist no harm at all, and in fact can stimulate their market.
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http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/charlesqa/qa.htm)
She found the only network interview with Sandra Kia, where he spoke about the case with Saatchi (my translation):
"Once I talked to him (
Saatchi) on some of my work, part of his collection, which he intended to sell, must see, because he was not allowed to purchase new (
pictures). Nothing special, we immediately agreed and split normally. A few hours later at dinner (definitely in that time, some sort of perversion began in my head) I was attacked verbally Saatchi, publicly insulting and arrogant manner. In this most unhappy moment in all the magazines and newspapers had published that Saatchi sold off blocks of my work, but it's not true, because he sold only four of my work, and with considerable profit.
Perhaps at that moment was enough for me to answer, clarify, but for some mysterious reason I have not felt it necessary to intervene. "
Personally, my opinion might well be true, having lived several years in Italy, nothing particularly unusual about the behavior not see. Wine in the head hit, someone from "Friends" he whispered and sent to the "correct" side, saw a lot of such scenes.
http://www.flashartonline.it/interno...lo=SANDRO-CHIA
Another found such an interesting book
Economics of art auctions Gianfranco Mossetto, Marilena Vecco.
this
link just leads to a page that also mentioned other artists
Robert Ryman,
Robert Mangold,
Sean Scully, who had a similar problem with Saatchi.
here Link to the Italian site, similar topics with artinvestment, where you can see prices some of Sandro Kia, they do not like a DX.